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It’s Monday! I guess it’s a holiday too, but I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t try to go to the Post Office. Did you enjoy your holiday? I’m almost over my cold! Our news today is divided into unique topics. Enjoy and hopefully I’ll get this on iTunes later this week! Have a great Monday night! xoxo Trina [podcast]http://www.gamingangels.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/5at51012.mp3[/podcast] Follow

Bioware has just released a new trailer for Dragon Age: Origins showing off the Sacred Ashes trailer. The cinematic trailer is very pretty and even includes a Dragon! Dragon Age: Origins will be released on November 3, 2009. Video Games | Dragon Age: Origins | Sacred Ashes Trailer XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii Shacknews has information about the two DLC expansions that will be added to Dragon Age: Origins. All new copies of Dragon Age: Origins will include free codes for both “Stone Prisoner expansion” and “Blood Dragon Armor”. The armor is also wearable in Mass Effect 2. If you purchase the title used, “Stone Prisoner” will be set at $15 or 1200 MS Points. The “Warden’s Keep” expansion swill be priced at $7 and those who buy the PC Digital Deluxe Edition will get it for free. “Warden’s Keep” TrailerStone Prisoner trailer Follow

I had no idea that SyFy has an anime Monday block. Starting tonight on the SyFy Ani-Monday block is the premier of Naoki Urasawa’s Monster. The title is definitely one for Halloween month! It’s a psychological suspense thriller that will air each Monday night and then be re-broadcast on channel Chiller the week after. Here is some information on Monster: What would you do if a child you saved grew up to be a monster? An ice-cold killer is on the loose, and Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Tenma, a brilliant neurosurgeon with a promising future, risks his career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy named Johan. When the boy, now a coldhearted and charismatic young man, reappears nine years later in the midst of a string of unusual serial murders, Tenma must go on the run from the police

The Amazon Kindle now has a lower price! Down from $299, the Kindle is $259. The $259 Kindle has the ability to use US Wireless. The $279 version has US and International Wireless in case you are a constant traveler. The $259 Kindle is available for immediate shipping while the $279 can be pre-ordered today for delivery starting in two weeks. The wireless technology used is 3G which means you won’t have to hunt for a Wi-Fi spot. You also won’t have any wireless bills or any contracts to sign. They have a coverage map here so you can see how good the coverage is in your area. The Kindle can hold 1,500 books and the battery life allows for up to two weeks of reading on a single charge. I don’t have a Kindle yet and I look forward to the day I can play around with one, but

I couldn’t resist posting about Destructoid’s interview with Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya speaking out against Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki. He thinks that Itagaki is an idiot who has unrealistic ideas about breasts. “I am bald, but I am not gay,” confirms Kamiya. He then went on to talk smack about boob-obsessed Itagaki, explaining that “It’s a huge mistake to think like an idiot that big breasts on women seem erotic.” These two have been public with their thoughts about each other before and have been fighting for a few months now. While it does seem like a childish spat, I do have to admit it’s pretty entertaining. For your Bayonetta fix today GT has a trailer that shows the demo comparison of the PS3 and 360 version: Video Games | Bayonetta | PS3/360 Demo Comparison XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii Follow

EA Black Box hosted a Need for Speed: Nitro preview event recently and I was given an opportunity to test out the game. Curious about the Wii title, I was happy to get a test drive. Never having owned a Wii and little interested in the racing genre, I had no idea what to expect. I saw other people giving the game a go, latching on to the Wii Wheel, enthusiastically steering left and right. Naturally, I wanted to give the Wii Wheel a try! Waiting in line, I passed the time talking to people around me. One of those people happened to be Assistant Producer Anouk Bachman! Incredibly generous with her time, she explained the development process for Nitro and what the team hoped to achieve with the game. During our impromptu interview,she led me over to the Wii Wheels and gave me a general walkthrough of the features

Your Xbox 360 avatar will be able to get into the Modern Warfare 2 mood with items provided by Infinity Ward. Rob Bowling recently twittered that the avatar items most likely won’t be in the form of Avatar Rewards but will be in the Avatar marketplace. Bowling hopes that it will be free. “Not sure we’ll be doing any Avatar rewards, but we are making avatar items. With some free ones hopefully.” Modern Warfare 2 is out on November 10 for the PS3 and 360. A British paper, the Daily Star, is a bit late to the game, calling out Infinity Ward for providing tools for “peeping toms” and making gaming fans a “army of ogling pervs”. Their reason for making these claims are two comments left on game sites about the Prestige Pack’s night vision goggles. Follow

Cartoon Network is letting the fans build their own part of the Clone Wars universe with the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator. The game creator is live now at starwarsgamecreator.cartoonnetwork.com/ and has easy to use features. Cartoon Network fans have embraced other game creators, creating more than 4.6 million games with the Ben 10: Alien Force Game Creator. “The new Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator combines the action and adventure of the show with our original game creator technology that allows fans to design their own custom online experience,” said Kitric Kerns, vice-president of Cartoon Network Digital. “We’ve evolved the design of CartoonNetwork.com to give more access to the breadth of content we offer, including hundreds of games, videos and community functionality that gives users a voice.” Follow

FIFA 10 scored another goal as it remained a UK favorite and sold enough to hold onto the top spot in the sales charts for last week. There was some competition with games brand new to the countdown like Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (2), Scribblenauts (12), Star Wars: Clone Wars Republic Heroes (15), Wii Play (19), and Mario Strikers Charged Football (20). The UK charts should be very interesting in the next few weeks as the onslaught of new games starts. The biggest drop was MySims Agents from 7 to 13. Gran Turismo gets an opposite boost from 12 to 7. The most popular publisher is overwhelmingly Nintendo with 7 games in the top 20. It’s been a long time since one publisher has dominated that much. Out of the top 20 (for publisher) is Activision. Follow

Just in time for Halloween, Playrix has released its newest match 3 game, Fishdom: Spooky Splash. Swap tiles featuring ghosts and pumpkins amongst the spooky creatures of the deep, earning enough to purchase fish, witches, vampires, and other creatures for your own spooktacular tank! “Working on a match-3 sequel to Fishdom, we took on board some great ideas and numerous suggestions of Fishdom devotees. For instance, the ability to purchase unlimited number of tanks,” said Igor Bukhman, Playrix’s President, Products. “Fishdom: Spooky Splash has its unique atmosphere, it is as fun and relaxing as the original Fishdom, but quirky fishies, spooky ornaments and eerie music create an absolutely new experience.” The game features dark and Halloween-themed backgrounds to its levels, multiple tanks to chose from, haunted houses, up to 100 “boo-tiful” fish and accessories, unlimited number of tanks to design, screensaver option, and more. “Watch out: you can be spooky